History Awesome / JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell

* [[spoiler:The death of the gentleman with thistle-down hair by Stephen Black.]]

* The gentleman with thistle-down hair [[spoiler:cursing Strange]], partly ''because'' it's so strange and you're not sure what really happened.

* Strange [[spoiler:sending a huge flock of crows past the gentleman with thistle-down hair to restore magic back to England]].
* The Raven King's [[TheCameo cameo]] [[spoiler:in Chapter 67]], after the reader has been waiting patiently for his appearance for the entirety of the novel. In minutes, he [[spoiler: brings Vinculus back to life, stops Childermass's bullet, heals Childermass's face and wipes his memory of their encounter. Finally he changes Vinculus' tattoos to show his own book of magic to ease the re-emergence of magic.]]

* The revelation that [[spoiler: the Raven King possibly orchestrated the events of the book centuries ago.]]

* Vinuculus [[spoiler: facing the gentleman and his own death with cool dignity.]]
* Strange's last appearance, striding off into the darkness and [[spoiler:intending to travel the many worlds to use his curse to intimidate magical opponents on his journey]].
* The nature of the gentleman's curse on Strange. A pillar of eternal midnight several miles in diameter and several miles in height, centered around a single person in such a way that the victim can never find the boundary [[spoiler: and with the (accidental) ability to similarly trap any more English magicians who get caught in it]], with enough power to last the next hundred years and designed to let the mortal prisoner survive those hundred years by way of a time distortion putting their bodily functions into stasis. To disguise his movements, Strange conjures up an extremely violent storm out-of-season within visible distance of a town to follow him around, because it's ''less'' dramatic than the curse.

* [[spoiler: Jeremy Johns]] taking a cannonball to save Strange.

* Strange in general in episode six, once he intentionally drives himself mad to gain knowledge. [[spoiler: He catches the gentleman with the thistledown hair off-guard by seeing through his invisibility, then figures out that he was the fairy to raise Lady Pole from the dead and forces him to give up Lady Pole's finger. Then he invades Lost Hope and forcing the gentleman to drive himself to exhaustion to get rid of him. Then, he goes LaughingMad and starts throwing magic around on such a scale that Norrell admits that he might not be able to stop him. He then sets in motion a plan that, if all had gone as intended, neatly freed Lady Pole and Arabella from the Gentleman, leaving them in the hands of Flora Greysteel. Finally Strange breaks down the barriers that kept magic out of England.]] Not bad for a lunatic.
** In Episode Seven, it's revealed that he terrified Drawlight so much that [[spoiler: the cowardly Drawlight is willing to face the immediate wrath of an armed Lascelles rather than go against Strange's orders, something that cost Drawlight his life.]]
* Norrell develops an unaccustomed assertiveness in episode six: he [[spoiler: threatens Drawlight into doing his bidding, rounds on Lord Liverpool and tells him that he warned the government that Strange had to be tamed, he warned them of the consequences and they refused to listen, then snaps at Lascelles when the latter mocks the existence of fairies]].
* In episode seven, during Strange and Norrell's final confrontation [[spoiler: Strange, despite being desperate, half-mad and dying, routs Norrell with a few spells that he casts without even moving more than his head, before laughing off Norrell's feeble attempt at combat magic.]]
* In episode seven, after a confrontation, [[spoiler: Norrell and Strange team up and, despite both slowly dying thanks to the Gentleman's black tower, successfully summon the Raven King, before accidentally dumping all of English magic into Stephen Black. Once this happens, Norrell uses rain to slip them into Lost-Hope, then Strange manages to return Arabella's memory via a kiss and send her to safety through a mirror portal he created on the spot.]]
** Stephen and Lady Pole finally get their moment to shine, [[spoiler: the former taking the role of the Nameless Slave of the prophecy and using all English magic, killing the Gentleman and proclaiming that he will no longer call any man master, while the latter verbally tears several strips off the Gentleman and gently but firmly informs her husband that she's leaving for the continent to help Arabella.]]
** And one for the Raven King, [[spoiler: who after being summoned, regards Strange and Norrell for a moment, then disappears, freezing Childermass with a wave of his hand, changing the writing on Vinculus' body, resurrecting him, then finally healing Childermass' cut cheek, before disappearing again]]. Vinculus also implies that everything was by his design, saying that [[spoiler: Strange and Norrell have only ever been part of the Raven King's designs, that they are spells spun by him]].

* The nature of the gentleman's curse on Strange. A pillar of eternal midnight several miles in diameter and several miles in height, centered around a single person in a way that the victim can never find the boundary [[spoiler: and with the (accidental) ability to trap any more English magicians who get caught in it]], with enough power to last the next hundred years and designed to let the mortal prisoner survive those hundred years by way of a time distortion putting his bodily functions into stasis. To disguise his movements, Strange conjures up an extremely violent storm out-of-season within visible distance of a town to follow him around, because it's ''less'' dramatic than the curse.